Fung Wah Bus Crashes On Turnpike

No Serious Injuries Reported

A Fung Wah bus crashed near the Allston tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike just before noon on Wednesday.

NewsCenter 5's Sean Kelly said the bus driver, Jimmy Chow, was cited for negligent operations and having false log books and faulty brakes.

The bus was full of passengers, but no one was seriously injured. There were 40 to 60 people on board. They were taken from the scene on another Fung Wah bus to a nearby hotel.

Passengers had different accounts of how fast the bus was traveling before the crash.

"The bus was like out of a movie -- going sideways, you felt like it was flying. He was going too fast," passenger Tiffany Perez said.

"We were not going too fast, it swayed a little bit out, everyone is going to be all right," passenger Andrew Sjogren said.

Other major bus carriers had shut down Boston operations during the storm. Fung Wah did cancel its Boston to New York service until after the crash.

"The buses were canceled, all the other buses, and then (Fung Wah) they offered us $15 each to New York," passenger Bob Fitzgerald said.

In 2005, a Fung Wah bus caught fire in Boston. In September 2006, a bus full of passengers rolled over in Auburn. State police said the driver was driving too fast. After the crash, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fined Fug Wah more than $31,000, in part, for letting non-English speaking drivers carry its passengers.

State police determined the driver in Wednesday's crash could effectively communicate in English.